Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,352, Michael Fleming, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Fleming Michael
S 34,352
CONTENTS

2162
New Jersey.
Colo Michael Fleming, Wyncoop Serjeant Major,
New York line 76 War
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of Aug t 1818 and paid to William S. Cunningham, Esq r Morristown, New Jersey.
Arrearages to 4 th Sep t 1818.
4 mo. 21/30. $: 37. 60
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
64000000000000000000

Michael Fleming's
Dictation
correct under the Law
no rolls.
Apr 11 th 1818
EB.
Witness my roll.
Appears correct under the New York Policy

District of New Jersey.
on this fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber one of the judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the said district personally appears Michael Fleming aged Seventy one years the Sixteenth Day of November last resident in the Township of Hightstown in the County of Mercer in the said District who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary war that he the said Michael Fleming enlisted in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy five or near as he can recollect in the month of July in the City of New York in the State of New York for Six months in the Company commanded by Capt Johnson and continued to serve in said Company for the term of his enlistment and then was re-enlisted and that he again enlisted in the month of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy six or near as he can recollect, in the City of New York in the State of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Pharron belonging to the Fourth York Regiment and continued in that Service til near the close of the year seventeen hundred and Seventy six, when stationed at Schenck Burn in Vermont when the said Michael Fleming enlisted for during the war in the said Fourth Regiment commanded by Colonel Wincrop of Troop in the State of New York and entered that Service as Sergeant Major and continued in that Regiment til the first of the year seventeen hundred and Seventy Seven when an arrangement took place and the first, second, third and fourth Regiments were reduced to three Regiments when stationed at Albany in the State of New York when the said Michael Fleming was annexed to the first Regiment commanded by Colonel Van Schuyler of

of Albany in the State of New York and continued in said First York Regiment as Sergeant Major and orderly Sergeant during the war in the service of the united States until the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three when he was discharged from service back of New Windsor in the State of New York that he was in the Battle of Fort  Red Bank Red Bank and Yorktown at the taking of Lord Cornwallis and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said Service
Michael Fleming
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
William Pennington District Judge
I William S Pennington Judge etc as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Michael Fleming did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress done at New York 14 th April 1818
William Pennington District Judge

I William Pennington Clerk of the District of New- Jersey, do certify that the signatures to this instrument are the proper hand writing of William G. Pennington Esq. the Judge of the United States, District Court. For the Dis- trict of New Jersey.
As witness my hand and the Seal of the said District Court at New Ark this fourteenth day of April A.D. 1818.
Wm Pennington

Michael Fleming
No 2162 Open boy
Dec 75
Not entitled
Oct 28 78
278
Open boy
Oct 28
278

At a Special District Court of the United States in & for the New Jersey District holden at Newark in the County of Essex -
PRESENT the Honorable M c L. Pennington District Judge - New Jersey
Essex County - ss. Be it Remembered, That on the thirteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in the District Court of the United States for the New Jersey District in open court, the said court being a court of record for the District of New Jersey , holden at Newark in the County of Essex aforesaid
Michael Fleming aged seventy four years, resident in Essex County N.J.
who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he
served in the revolutionary war as follows: That he enlisted in the Company commanded by Capt. Johnson , in the 1 st  New York Regi- ment. commanded by Col M c Dougall in the month of June 1775 - & continued to serve until the close of the war, that in 1776 he was in Capt. O'Hara Company in the 4 th  New York Regiment commanded by Col - was afterwards attached as Sergeant Major to the 1 st Dynkroop & acted as Sergeant Major to the 1 st New York Regiment. commanded by Col Van Schaick .
and that his original declaration is dated the fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that his pension certificate is No. 2182 .

AND I do solemnly swear — that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, to wit:
No real property whatever 1. Small Cow 1. Pig of 347 Dollars due to him — That he is very infirm & is so deaf & so nearly blind that he is unable to work or do anything towards his support — That he has 8 chairs 2. Small tables 1. Cupboard 2. Pots 1. tea kettle Shovel Stones 6 cups & saucers 6. plates 6 old knives & forks 1. Lea pot, 2 Pails 1 Wash tub 1. looking glass 2 Milk pans 1. Pork Barrel almost empty — And that he has no other income whatever — That he has a wife named Mary aged sixty seven years, & does her own house work —
Sworn & declared to before me in open Court William S. Pennycuick District Judge
Michael Fleming

I, William Pennycuick Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the New Jersey District Do hereby certify, That the foregoing deaths — and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Three hundred & seventy five Dollars
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 27 th — day of July — 1820
W m Pennycuick

34 352 Rev INVALID.
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File No. 34, 352
Michael Fleming Pr. Rev. Ind
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 147
[Arrangement of 1870.]

New Jersey
Michael Fleming Serf. Maj.
Served from '70 to end of war.
1 st Sched: dated 27. July 1820.
Note of hand of for. — $347. —
Personal property — 28. —
Total $375. —
Sched: under Act of Mar: 1823.
[acted 18 Ap r 1823]
Personal property — $84.50.
accounts for the decrease of property —
States that the whole of the note, with the exception of $40, has been collected and expended on his family
Claimant aged 74 yrs. unable to labor in consequence of infirmities & frailty of sight & hearing — wages of 2 yrs. no other family —
Asa Whitehead Esq.
New Ark
N. J.
Rev. May 27
1823
Sept. term 1818.
39 16
5.60

M c Fleming
Fleming Payable on the 4 th of March & 4 th of Sept r in each year, by the President of the Trenton Banking Company, Trenton, New Jersey.
Michael Fleming
#34,352
Recorded

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Rev. claim.
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES,
of the 18 th of March, 1818,
Michael Fleming, late a Sergeant Major in the
Army of the Revolution,
is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Jersey Agency, at the rate of eight dollars cents per month, to commence on the fourteenth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES,
this eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J. B. Calhoun Secretary of War

Sept 1818 Paid to Sept 4 1818.
May 3 1819. Paid to March 1819
Sept 11 1819 Paid to Sept 11 1819
May 1820 Paid to March 1820
Oct 9 1823 P to Sept 4 1823
Sept 1824 P to March 1824
Sept 1824 Paid to Sept 1824
Mar 30 1825 P to March 1825
Sept 16 1825 P to Sept 4 1825
Sept 11 1826 P to March 1826
Sept 6 1826 P to Sept 4 1826
March 1827 P to March 1827
Oct 6 1827 P to Sept 4 1827
March 11 1828
P to March 1828
Sept 23 1828 P to Sept 4 1828
March 14 1829 P to March 4 1829
Sept 22 1829 P to Sept 4 1829
March 11 1830 P to March 11 1830
Sept 14 1830 P to Sept 4 1830
March 7 1831 P to March 11 1831
2182

Declaration and Schedule of Michael Fleming
[Faint, illegible handwriting on the lower portion of the slip]

State of New Jersey County of Essex } ss. On this eighteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and twenty three, personally appeared in open in the court of common pleas of the said county, being a court of record, for the said county, of Essex, Michael resident in the said county, of Essex, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following decla- ration in order to obtain the pensions made by the acts of the 10 th of March 1818, the 1 st of March 1820, and the 1 st of March 1823, that he the said Michael Schuyler enlisted in the month of June 1775, in the city of New York in the company commanded by Captain Johnson, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel M c Dougall called the first New York Regiment, in the line of the State of New York on the continental establishment, that he enlisted for the term of six months, and served out the period of his enlistment, that in the month February 1776, he enlisted in the company com- manded by Captain Blauvelt in the first New York Regiment commanded by Colonel W h ynkoop in the line of the State of New York on the continental establishment, that he enlisted for the term of one year, and that in the fall or autumn of the year 1776, he enlisted in the first New York Regime- nt commanded by Colonel Van Schaick for during the war, in the line of the State of New York on the continental establishment, and that he continued to serve during the war in that Regiment as Sergeant Major or as the first elderly Sergeant, until the month of May 1783, when he was discharged from the said service

an unmarried in the State of New York, and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby to to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, passed on the 10th day of March 1810, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, that since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property, to wit, that as far as he can recollect on his former schedule and inventory besides some articles of household furniture and a cow, he stated that the sum of three hundred fifty eight dollars or thereabouts was due to him but he cannot state minutely from whom and that he has not disposed of any part of it except for the support of himself and his wife named Mary, who is aged about twenty two years that he is in poor and in consequence of the great imperfection in his sight and hearing he has been unable to work or earn but very little for their main support, that of the money which was

due to him all of it has been received & expended for his house rent and for the support of himself and his wife except the sum of forty dollars which is still due on a note which he still owes his car which is not worth more than twelve dollars and his household furniture and a bed and bedding which are barely sufficient for ordinary use, that he has no money, and that of the sum which is due to him he must necessarily apply some part thereof for the purchase of provision and for some necessary clothing, and that with the exception of the property here stated he must depend on public or private charity for support, and that I have annexed hereto a correct schedule of all my property -    cupboard $ 5.50.  brother $ 4.00    cooking pots - 1.50.  1 cow 12.00    table 2.00.  1 tub 75    12 common chairs 4.50.  knives & forks 75    and hands & shoes etc. 2.00  spoons 50    2 pots & 2 kettles 2.00  2 candlesticks 25    2 pails 1.50  churn 75    carpet (common) 3.00  1 beehive 25    2 tubs 1.50  4 baskets 50    2 barrels 1.00  Cash due on note 40.00    1 ax 50.25   84.50  
Sworn and subscribed & acknowledged to in open court the day & year first above written Attest, Michael Fleming Asa Whitcomb, Atty
State of New Jersey County of Essex } ss. I Asa Whitcomb, Clerk of the inferior court of common pleas in and for said County of Essex, do hereby certify that the

foregoing declaration and schedule are truly copied from the records of the said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount of in- value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is eighty four dollars & fifty cents
On Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court this twenty first day of April in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and twenty three
Abie Whitehead